Freed Israeli hostage details Hamas’s sexual abuse, porn threat

A freed Israeli hostage has revealed how he was sexually abused at gunpoint by a Hamas terrorist who suggested they make a porn film together – then threatened to kill him if he ever spoke about it. Guy Dalal-Gilboa, 23, detailed the horrors of his two years in captivity at the hands of the terrorists before he was among the hostages released from Gaza last month as part of the ceasefire deal, per The New York Post. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 12, Mr Dalal-Gilboa described how one of his tormentors had led him blindfolded to a room and mockingly asked: “You haven’t seen girls in a long time, right? Want to watch porn? Want me and you to make a porn film?” “He started touching my whole body and I froze at that moment,” he continued. “He started touching and kissing my neck, kissing my back. It was very, very scary.” When Mr Dalal-Gilboa told the terrorist that he was terrified, the Hamas terrorist threatened to kill him if he ever detailed the abuse. “He took me, pressed a gun to my head and a knife to my throat and told me that if I told any one of the guys inside, then he would kill me,” he recalled. “Not only did I go through that terrible experience, I also couldn’t tell anyone. I had to keep it to myself, inside me.” Recounting yet another degrading attack, Mr Dalal-Gilboa said one of his captors abused him when he had been allowed to take a shower. “I showered and he took me by force and pulled me into their room, and wouldn’t let me get dressed,” he said. “He also takes off his own trousers. I told him, ‘You’re joking, right? That’s forbidden in Islam. You’re Muslim, things like this are forbidden’. “I didn’t know what to do with myself at that moment.” Mr Dalal-Gilboa said that he feared the abuse would “slowly get worse” and “become even more violent and even more invasive”. His traumatising account comes just weeks after another male hostage, Rom Braslavski, revealed that he, too, was stripped naked, starved and sexually abused by Hamas before he was finally released earlier this year. Israeli President Isaac Herzog was among those to decry Mr Dalal-Gilboa’s harrowing revelations and hail the traumatised hostage’s bravery. “The world must hear his shocking testimony, recognise that Hamas terrorists committed horrific sexual violence, and understand that the systematic and sustained sexual violence that began on October 7 continued thereafter,” he wrote on X. “Guy, you are teaching us a vital lesson. You are shedding light on the terrible darkness of the tunnels so that the world can understand what really happened there. “You are a young man carrying a horrific burden that no one should bear.” This article was originally published by The New York Post and was reproduced with permission